1.01- New World Beginnings: 33,000 B.C.E.- 1680 C.E.

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Canadian Shield

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Formed north-eastern part of North America, probably the first part to emerge from the sealevel

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Pangea

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formed some 225 million years ago

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Incas

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Peru, conquered by Pizzaro

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Aztecs

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Mexico, conquered by Cortes

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Nation-states

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The modern form of political society that combines centralized government with a high degree of ethnic and cultural unity.

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Cahokia

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Mississippian settlement once home to as many as 25,000 people

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Three-sister farming

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maize, beans, squash

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Matrilineal

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form of society in which the family line, power, and wealth are passed down the female side

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caravel

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-ship developed by the Portuguese, could sail closer into the wind
-triangular sails

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plantation system

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exploitation of slave labor for large-scale commercial purposes

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Colombian Exchange

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-international economy
-European diet
-population
-animals/plants
-germs

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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-Spain and Portugal divided the New World
-dividing line: Papal line of Demarcation

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Encomienda

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-gave Indians to Spanish colonists in return for Christianizing them,
-worked lands
-basically slave labor

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Noche triste

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-sad night
-Aztecs drove Spain from Tenochtitlan
-Cortes then laid siege

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Pizzaro

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conquered Incans

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Cortes

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conquered Aztecs

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Vasco Nunez Balboa

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-Spanish
-first European to see the Pacific
-claimed all lands touched by the Pacific ocean for Spain

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Ferdinand Magellan

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-Spanish
-circumnavigated the globe

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Juan Ponce de Leon

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-Spanish
-explored Florida

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Francisco Coronado

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-Spanish
-Explored Arizona, New Mexico, as far northwest as Kansas

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Hernando de Soto

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-Spanish
-discovered and crossed the Mississippi

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John Cabot

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-English
-Explored the northeastern coast of North America

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Giovanni da Verrazano

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-Italian for France
-explored the eastern seaboard

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Jaques Cartier

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-French
-traveled hundreds of miles up the St. Lawrence river

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Mestizos

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mixed Native American and European heritage

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Conquistadores

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Spanish conquerors

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Don Jean de Onate

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-Won the Battle of Acoma
-sentenced Natives to 20 years of servitude and severed foot of males over 25
-Proclaimed New Mexico

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La Salle

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-French
-explored Mississippi river

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Father Junipero Serra

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founded missions to Christianize Indians

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Malinche

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Female Native American
-Slave to Cortez
-Spoke both Nahuatl (the language of the Aztecs) and Mayan

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Marco Polo

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Venetian merchant, traveled to Asia and really started the spice trade

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Montezuma

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thought Cortes was a god, welcomed him and was then killed

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Vinland

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Scandinavians landed in North America, found grapes, called it Vinland

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Spanish Armada

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Army of Spanish conquistadores that explored and conquered the Native peoples

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Pueblo Indians

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Intricate irrigation systems

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Joint Stock Companies

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Rich people pooled their money and funded explorations so they could make more money